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  • FRANCO
    FRANCO
    STANLEY G. PAYNE / JESÚS PALACIOS
    General Francisco Franco (1892-1975), ruler of Spain for nearly forty years, was one of the most powerful and controversial leaders in that nation's long history. This deeply researched biography treats the three major aspects of his life—personal, military, and political. It depicts his early life, explains his career and rise to prominence as an army officer who became Europe...
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    38,65 €

  • RADICAL INTIMACY
    RADICAL INTIMACY
    SOPHIE K. ROSA
    'A clarion voice from a new generation of British feminists' Sophie Lewis, author of Abolish the Family 'A powerful, utterly engaging read and a vital call to action' Meg-John Barker, author of Rewriting the Rules 'Made me reconsider so many of the cultural scripts I've been fed my whole life. Unsparing, important and hopeful' Annie Lord, author of Notes on Heartbreak In a worl...
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    18,75 €

  • ISAAC
    ISAAC
    CURTIS GARNER
    Set in London across a single, life-altering summer, Isaac interrogates masculinity and queerness in the digital age and offers a fresh take on desire and intimacy, adolescent obsession and dangerous first love. After inexperienced seventeen-year-old Isaac loses his virginity through a dating app - a disappointing yet addictive experience - he spends his final months before uni...
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    13,75 €

  • KING OF ENVY
    KING OF ENVY
    ANA HUANG
    He had everything he could've wanted . . . except her. Dangerous. Powerful. Reclusive. Vuk Markovic is notorious for shunning human interactions. The scarred billionaire rarely talks, and he has no interest in relationships outside his small but trusted circle. His only exception? Her. The beauty to his beast, the object of his obsession. He saw her first. He wanted her fir...
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  • THE LORAX
    THE LORAX
    DR. SEUSS
    The Lorax is the original eco warrior and his message still rings loud today in this fable about the dangers of destroying our forests, told in the trademark rhyme of the irrepressible Dr. Seuss. "Mister! He said with a sawdusty sneeze, I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees." The Lorax is a hilarious and timeless story with the trademark humour and silly rhymes of Dr. Seuss, th...
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    9,99 €

  • NIGHT SKY WITH EXIT WOUNDS
    NIGHT SKY WITH EXIT WOUNDS
    OCEAN VUONG
    Winner of the 2017 T. S. Eliot Prize 'Reading Vuong is like watching a fish move: he manages the varied currents of English with muscled intuition.' New Yorker An extraordinary debut from a young Vietnamese American, Night Sky with Exit Wounds is a book of poetry unlike any other. Steeped in war and cultural upheaval and wielding a fresh new language, Vuong writes about the ...
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    15,00 €

  • EARLY MODERN EUROPEAN SOCIETY
    EARLY MODERN EUROPEAN SOCIETY
    HENRY KAMEN
    A new edition of a seminal work--one that explores crucial changes within Europe from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century The early modern period was one of profound change in Europe. It was witness to the development of science, religious reformation, and the birth of the nation state. As Europeans explored the world--looking to Asia and the Americas for new peoples and l...
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    19,99 €

  • ANATOMY OF A SCANDAL
    ANATOMY OF A SCANDAL
    SARAH VAUGHAN
    THE WORD-OF-MOUTH SENSATION THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A RICHARD & JUDY BOOKCLUB SELECTION NOW A NUMBER ONE NETFLIX SERIES 'Timely and compelling' Shari Lapena 'Impressive' The Times 'Gripping' Observer 'Sensational' Clare Mackintosh A high-profile marriage thrust into the spotlight. A prosecutor who believes justice has been a long time coming. A scandal that will rock W...
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    11,25 €

  • HOLMES, MARGARET AND POE
    HOLMES, MARGARET AND POE
    JAMES PATTERSON
    Brendan Holmes, Margaret Marple and Auguste Poe run the most in-demand private investigation agency in New York City.The three detectives make a formidable team, solving a series of seemingly impossible crimes - from a priceless art theft and a decades-old unsolved murder, to mysterious disappearances that expose corruption and bribery at the highest levels of power. ...
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    11,25 €

  • COMING UP FOR AIR
    COMING UP FOR AIR
    GEORGE ORWELL
    George Orwell's paean to the end of an idyllic era in British history, Coming Up for Air is a poignant account of one man's attempt to recapture childhood innocence as war looms on the horizon. George Bowling, forty-five, mortgaged, married with children, is an insurance salesman with an expanding waistline, a new set of false teeth - and a desperate desire to escape his dreary...
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  • THE DEVILS
    THE DEVILS
    JOE ABERCROMBIE
    'Abercrombie is in a class of his own' JOE HILL 'An unholy delight' PIERCE BROWN'Hilarious, profound, tragic, and so thrillingly paced' NICHOLAS EAMES 'An incredibly fun, incredibly action-packed and, by the end, incredibly affecting book' TAMSYN MUIR Europe stares into the abyss. Plague and famine stalk the land, monsters lurk in every shadow and greedy princes care for noth...
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    31,25 €

  • EGO IS THE ENEMY
    EGO IS THE ENEMY
    RYAN HOLIDAY
    As in 'The Obstacle is the Way', Ryan Holiday delivers practical and inspiring philosophy, this time exploring a powerful concept that runs back centuries, across borders and schools of thought: ego. Ego is our biggest enemy. Early in our careers, it can prevent us from learning and developing our talents. When we taste success, ego can blind us to our own faults, alienate us f...
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    13,75 €

  • MASSCULT AND MIDCULT
    MASSCULT AND MIDCULT
    DWIGHT MACDONALD
    A New York Review Books OriginalAn uncompromising contrarian, a passionate polemicist, a man of quick wit and wide learning, an anarchist, a pacifist, and a virtuoso of the slashing phrase, Dwight Macdonald was an indefatigable and indomitable critic of America's susceptibility to well-meaning cultural fakery: all those estimable, eminent, prizewinning works of art that are sai...
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    22,50 €

  • RUSSIAN ROULETTE
    RUSSIAN ROULETTE
    ANTHONY HOROWITZ
    The eagerly anticipated, deadly prequel to the number one bestselling Alex Rider series.In the prequel to the number one bestselling Alex Rider series by Anthony Horowitz, contract killer YassenGregorovich is given orders to kill Alex. But Yassen knows a secret from the past that connects him to the fourteen-year-old spy. What is it that makes one of them choose to do evil, and...
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    9,99 €

  • THE SMELL OF FRESH RAIN
    THE SMELL OF FRESH RAIN
    BARNEY SHAW
    What do we actually mean when we say that something smells of fresh paint? Or frying bacon? And what does five o clock in the morning smell like? Inspired by an unsettlingly synaesthesic question put to him by his son, Barney Shaw looks into the science of smell: peering behind its sensory nature to discover its complexities, and finding surprising beauty in its processes. We u...
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    11,25 €

  • MORE LETTERS OF NOTE
    MORE LETTERS OF NOTE
    SHAUN USHER
    More Letters of Note is another rich and inspiring collection, which reminds us that much of what matters in our lives finds its way into our letters.These letters deliver the same mix of the heartfelt, the historically significant, the tragic, the comic and the unexpected. Discover Richard Burton's farewell note to Elizabeth Taylor, Helen Keller's letter to The New York Sympho...
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    37,50 €

  • HOW TO END A LOVE STORY
    HOW TO END A LOVE STORY
    YULIN KUANG
    "How to End a Love Story is one of the sexiest, smartest, funniest, and most effective novels I've read in a long time. Yulin Kuang's voice is strong, sure, and singular-I'll read anything she writes. An absolute star." Emily Henry "This is without doubt one of my favourite romance novels of the year. It's so smart, rich and emotional, so beautifully written - I can't rave abo...
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    12,50 €

  • LIGHTS! CAMERA! ACTION!
    LIGHTS! CAMERA! ACTION!
    ALEX T SMITH
    Claude discovers a film set on the other side of the fence! When the two lead actors are injured, Claude and Sir Bobblysock are asked to take their places. Can they become movie stars with just the simple addition of a wig? Of course they can! Claude was selected for the Waterstone's Children's Book Prize and the Richard and Judy Book Club. Alex T. Smith is the World Book Day I...
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    9,99 €

  • RECKLESS
    RECKLESS
    CHRISSIE HYNDE
    By the time she was 14, Chrissie Hynde knew she had to get out of Akron, Ohio. Her perfect '50s American childhood upturned by a newly acquired taste for rock 'n' roll, motorbikes and the 'get down boys' seen at gigs in and around Cleveland - Mitch Ryder, the Jeff Beck Group, the Velvet Underground and David Bowie among the many. Wrapped up in the Kent State University riots an...
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    21,25 €

  • AN UNWANTED GUEST
    AN UNWANTED GUEST
    SHARI LAPENA
    THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER from the author of the number one bestseller THE COUPLE NEXT DOOR. 'Tense. Unpredictable. Unputdownable. Shari Lapena's novels are domestic noir at its finest' Simon Kernick ____________________ We can't choose the strangers we meet. As the guests arrive at beautiful, remote Mitchell's Inn, they're all looking forward to a relaxing weekend deep in...
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  • THE AFRICAN QUEEN
    THE AFRICAN QUEEN
    C. S. FORESTER
    Central Africa, 1914; Rose Sayer, a thirty-three year-old English woman, is left alone when her missionary brother dies. Her only route out is aboard The African Queen, a steam-powered launch captained by Cockney mechanic, Charlie Alnutt. Determined to do her bit for the war effort and to avenge her brother, Rose persuades Charlie that they should attack the German gunboat, the...
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    14,99 €

  • HUSH, HUSH
    HUSH, HUSH
    BECCA FITZPATRICK
    A fallen angel. A forbidden love. A town full of secrets. Discover the first book in the gripping New York Times bestselling Hush, Hush saga, with a new introduction from Becca Fitzpatrick. "Let's be honest, Nora. You've got it bad for me." His eyes held a lot of depth. "And I've got it bad for you." Romance was not part of Nora Grey's plan. She's never been particularly ...
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    12,50 €

  • THE JOURNALS OF SYLVIA PLATH
    THE JOURNALS OF SYLVIA PLATH
    SYLVIA PLATH
    The Journals of Sylvia Plath offers an intimate portrait of the author of the extraordinary poems for which Plath is so widely loved, but it is also characterized by a prose of vigorous immediacy which places it alongside The Bell Jar as a work of literature. These exact and complete transcriptions of the journals kept by Plath for the last twelve years of her life - covering h...
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    25,00 €

  • THE NEXT PERSON YOU MEET IN HEAVEN
    THE NEXT PERSON YOU MEET IN HEAVEN
    MITCH ALBOM
    Fifteen years ago, in Mitch Albom's beloved novel, The Five People You Meet in Heaven, the world fell in love with Eddie, a grizzled war veteran- turned-amusement park mechanic who died saving the life of a young girl named Annie. Eddie's journey to heaven taught him that every life matters. Now, in this magical sequel, Mitch Albom reveals Annie's story. The accident that kille...
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  • THE LIGHT OF ASIA
    THE LIGHT OF ASIA
    CHRISTOPHER. HARDING
    This rich and enjoyable book by the acclaimed author of Japan Story explores the many ways in which Asia has influenced Europe and North America over centuries of tangled, dynamic encountersFrom the time of the ancient Greeks onwards the West's relationship with Asia consisted for the most part of outrageous tales of strange beasts and monsters, of silk and spices shipped over ...
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    16,25 €

  • THE GIRL IN THE EAGLE'S TALONS
    THE GIRL IN THE EAGLE'S TALONS
    KARIN SMIRNOFF
    A pulse-pounding new DRAGON TATTOO thriller "Lisbeth Salander is back - and maybe better than ever . . . Remarkable" LEE CHILD "Fresh, fearless, faithful and original . . . I loved it" CHRIS WHITAKER The untapped natural resources of Sweden's far north are sparking a gold rush, with the criminal underworld leading the charge. But it's not the prospect of riches that brings Li...
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  • WONDERFUL ADVENTURES OF MRS SEACOLE IN MANY LANDS
    WONDERFUL ADVENTURES OF MRS SEACOLE IN MANY LANDS
    MARY SEACOLE
    Famed for her work among the sick and wounded of the Crimean War, Mary Seacole possessed a unique perspective: that of a Victorian-era black woman at a battlefield's front line. Born in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1805, she began her career as a healer by helping her mother nurse British officers at nearby military camps. In the 1850s, her compassion aroused by agonizing reports from...
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    7,50 €

  • HEARTSTOPPER VOLUME 5
    HEARTSTOPPER VOLUME 5
    ALICE OSEMAN
    INSTANT NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER * NEW YORK TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR * FASTEST EVER SELLING GRAPHIC NOVEL * NOW ON NETFLIX * Now in gorgeous special-edition hardback: with an extra never-before-in-print mini-comic The Ethics of Infatuation Dynamics, beautiful endpapers and an exquisite foiled cover, this is an unmissable edition. Boy meets boy. Boys become friend...
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    21,25 €

  • BULLFIGHTING
    BULLFIGHTING
    RODDY DOYLE
    Bullfighting, Doyle's second collection of stories, offers a series of bittersweet takes on men and middle-age, revealing a panorama of Ireland today. Moving from classrooms to local pubs to bullrings, these tales feature an array of men taking stock and reliving past glories, each concerned with loss in different ways-of their place in the world, of their power, their virility...
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    19,99 €

  • HOME
    HOME
    SALMAN RUSHDIE
    Salman Rushdie, a self-described 'emigrant from one place and a newcomer in two', explores the true meaning of home. Writing with insight, passion and humour, he looks at what it means to belong, whether roots are real and homelands imaginary, what it is like to reconfigure your past from fragments of memory and what happens when East meets West. Selected from the books Shame,...
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    7,50 €